down the street

idiom

: some distance away on the same street

our neighbor down the street

Examples of down the street in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And during the pandemic, there was a lot of anti-asian hate crimes committed — which, the thought of my grandma walking down the street and someone doing that to her, just breaks my heart. —

Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024 The spot was long a haunt of politicians given its location down the street from the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which governed Mexico for much of the 20th century. —

Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for down the street

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